May Hits 14: Karang Nyimbur

This is the first time I took pictures of Karang Nyimbur surf (Ujung Bocor). Though 22 km is not too far, but it’s far enough when you are not motivated, as surfers who stay in town feel it too. Luckily, as it always is, Karang Nyimbur was working this morning, and it was quite big. It was about 3 to 5 feet and there were 12 to 15 surfers in the water.

Although the swells weren’t the biggest it can get, but the surfers enjoyed it very much. And since the swells kept on coming consistently, each surfers have their own wave to ride on. And since the waves are long enough to end up at the shore, many surfers who rode the waves all the way round ended up at the shore and decided not to paddle back to the surfs. And that’s the end of one session.

“I gonna get back to the surf,” said one Spanish surfer who had just washed away to the shore after taking some rest and talking to his wife who were taking pictures with her professional camera.

However, it was getting smaller at about ten o’clock, and this surfer who talked to me told me that it wouldn’t get bigger again. “Maybe tomorrow,” he said.

Turning a little further down south, Way Jambu, I saw nobody in the surf but two surfers paddling  their way out of the water, and some other surfers who already got to the beach. It was the end of the session, and I was late. But, not long after that, there were two other surfers coming. After checking the waves a little, they decided to take the surf, and parked their bike in the wooden fence (in Way Jambu there is a parking fence managed by locals where you can park your bikes while surfing, and you will be charged for it).

And so they were the only surfers that I saw in Way Jambu this morning. “Have you just surfed at other place, Mister,” I asked one of them before they got into the water.

“Yes, at Mandiri,” he replied.

“How many surfers were surfing there with you?”

“Only us two….”

But when I checked Mandiri on may way back home at about 12:30, I saw three or four surfers in the water. 


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